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Becoming a new parent can be exciting and scary at the same time. You are about to go into a whole new journey that you don’t really know much about. Here are three must-have books that will help you get through it.

What to Expect the First Year by Heidi Murkoff

From the same author of the book What to Expect When You’re Expecting, this book is a comprehensive guide on what you can expect to happen with your baby on his or her first year. It tackles milestones, growth and sleep strategies. Aside from that you can also find tips such as how you can give your baby a bath or how to interpret your baby’s cry. Most importantly it covers issues such as safety, vaccines, illnesses and SIDS. This book is actually one of the world’s best selling books and a great read for parents.

The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding by La Leche League International

Breastfeeding is and has been the most healthy way to nourish your baby. What better way to give your baby the best start in life than to give your baby the best nutrition. This book is a bestselling guide to breastfeeding. It covers all aspects of breastfeeding from the time you prepare for it during pregnancy to nursing positions and how you can express and store breast milk. There are also illustrations in the book that new moms will find very helpful. The book tackles breastfeeding concerns such as nursing multiples, premies and nursing after delivery complications.

The Expectant Father: Facts, Tips and Advice for Dads-to-Be by Armin A. Brott and Jennifer Ash

Of course we do not want to forget the dads. When a mom is pregnant, the dad is equally anxious and excited too and this book is perfect for them. It covers the emotional, physical and financial changes that a new father may experience from his partner’s pregnancy and onwards. It is an informative book that contains tips and inputs from different experts in the field of psychology, sociology and obstetrics.

Enter a bookstore and you will find hundreds, if not thousands, of books on health and wellness lining up the shelves. You will never run out of materials to read that can aid you in improving your health and fitness. Out of this multitude of manuscripts, let us zero in on three books that are on top of the charts.

Essentials of Strength Training and Conditioning

This book from the National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA) is already on its third edition and is one of the bestsellers of Barnes & Noble and Alibris. The Essentials of Strength Training and Conditioning provides a complete information training and conditioning the body for sports and athletics.

Various exercises in working out the body to be physically fit are detailed in this book. It even examines principles and topics that support strength training and conditioning. There are so many advantages of keeping fit such as improved mood, looking better, better healthier skin, and of course, less doctor visits. Although this is a must-read among training and conditioning professionals, this book is also helpful to those who want a better understanding of what exercises can one’s body perform.

How Not to Die: Discover the Foods Scientifically Proven to Prevent and Reverse Disease

Dr. Michael Greger, the author of this book, is known to be the founder of the popular NutritionFacts.org site. He elaborated on proofs about this one diet that can counteract and quash diseases that have been life-threatening. Greger delves into the bases of premature deaths in the US and how a healthy lifestyle and diet can help counter these disorders. How Not to Die is Amazon.com number one bestselling book on Nutrition.

The Omnivore’s Dilemma : A Natural History of Four Meals

The term omnivore’s dilemma is what anthropologists refer to when living things face a wide array of options on what they can eat. Taking from this concept, Michael Pollan tackled in this book the food types that are commonly consumed in America. He dissected these food types, differentiating those that are processed, such as those in the fast food chains, from those that are organically grown, and from those that have been gathered through hunting or gardening. Pollan traces the raw materials and sources of the food that are normally eaten and an eye-opener on the kinds of food we usually eat.

Some people want to workout to get fit, or to lose weight, but there are many others who hit the gym for an entirely different reason: to bulk up, or gain as much muscle as possible. If you’re someone who wants to increase your muscle mass and hit a new level of personal fitness, you have completely different routines, goals, and habits than other gym goers. Instead of sticking with your usual routine, you have to change your diet, your workout habits, and the way in which your body recovers. Together, the right tricks and effort can build you the impressive body you want. Although many different experts have shared their advice and strategies on how to bulk up quickly, there are some who offer the best of the best in terms of expertise. Here are three of the top books on bulking up.

The New Encyclopedia of Modern Bodybuilding by Arnold Schwarzenegger

If it’s advice on getting ripped and bulking up your entire body that you want, who better to turn to than Arnold Schwarzenegger? One of the most famous bodybuilders of all time, Schwarzenegger has taken his many years of workout, diet, and psychology experience and created the true bible of bodybuilding. Recently revised, this new edition features information on what to eat, what exercises to perform, how to recover, how to structure a training regimen, and even how to wrap your mind around all that comes with this new lifestyle.

Examine Muscle Gain and Performance Stack Guide by Examine.com

The Stack Guides are a collection of written works based on scientific and medical research information and statistics compiled by the writers at Examine.com – and they have created the ultimate gathering of research regarding bodybuilding and getting a bulked up physique. With information based on actual scientific findings on health and fitness, this book cuts through all of the ridiculous and unscientific information floating around online to offer readers sound tips on how to build more muscle. With advice on supplements, workout routines, and whole body nutrition, this book helps bulking happen in a healthy manner.

The Poliquin Principles by Charles Poliquin

If you aren’t 100 percent serious about building up your body, this isn’t the book for you. It’s a compendium only for the most serious bodybuilders, those who are training solely to build muscle and get an incredibly ripped body. With most of its advice focused in the areas of strength and weight training, Poliquin is writing to optimize the amount of muscle you build throughout every single exercise. He takes the advice you’re used to finding in muscle magazines to an entirely new level, helping you hone your training routine to perfection to truly see results.

When you’re looking for advice on your diet and overall nutrition, there’s certainly no shortage of suggestions, diet tricks and tips, and expert opinions. However, when you want to focus on your health and improve your eating habits, you don’t need quick fixes and fast tips – you want to be able to adhere to a better lifestyle, and feed your body the nutrients it needs to be at your best. The many diet and nutrition books available both in bookstores and online can help, but they can also feel overwhelmingly impossible to choose between. How do you know which nutrition books are the best to follow or try? Some, according to health and nutrition experts, are better than others – here are the three best to consider when you’re looking for nutritional advice.

Diet Cults: The Surprising Fallacy at the Core of Nutrition Fads and a Guide to Healthy Eating for the Rest of Us by Matt Fitzgerald

The title of this nutrition book says it all: author Matt Fitzgerald isn’t here to write about all of the quick fixes and hacks that you can attempt in order to lose weight or get “healthy” in a pinch. Instead, his book focuses on debunking all of those fad diets surrounding us every day and helping you fuel your body in all of the right ways. Fitzgerald is no newbie to the world of nutrition, either – he’s written many previous books on both nutrition and fitness, and he knows his health science. Fitzgerald attacks every popular diet that claims to be our one solution to health and weight loss. As a solution, he suggests following the nutritional habits our bodies are designed to follow by organizing all that you eat into a hierarchy. Instead of cutting foods out of your diet, Fitzgerald recommends eating more foods at the top of the hierarchy and fewer at the bottom. If you eat something unhealthy, his methods aren’t about feeling guilty; instead, it’s all about balancing worse foods with nutritious foods.

Unmasking Superfoods: The Truth and Hype About Acai, Quinoa, Chia, Blueberries, and More by Jennifer Sygo

Who hasn’t tried a superfood or two in an effort to eat in a more nutritious way? With so much hype surrounding superfoods, it’s not surprisingly that we’re turning to them. However, according to author Jennifer Sygo, they aren’t all that some claim they are. A sports nutrition expert and columnist for newspapers, Sygo is familiar with the nutrition habits of elite athletes and the average person. Her nutrition book is a top choice because she prizes evidence over all the superfood hype, breaking down each food and whether or not it’s worth your interest. She delves deeply into many different superfoods, classifying each as overhyped, underhyped, old classics, and even downright bad as she explains how they work. Sygo’s book can help you determine if certain foods are necessities or just poor advice.

The Diet Fix: Why Diets Fail and How to Make Yours Work by Yoni Freedhoff

A very recent publication, Yoni Freedhoff’s new book may sound like a new fad diet – however, Freedhoff isn’t advocating any crazy crash diets. Instead, he’s similar in theory and approach to Fitzgerald, advising readers to eat in a healthy, sustainable manner rather than relying on temporary quick fixes. An experienced obesity doctor, Freedhoff advises readers on how they can stop failing at their healthy eating plans by avoiding traditional “diets” and swapping them out for a more balanced approach to dining. He breaks down a successful nutrition plan into writing in a diary, exercising, and cooking, leaving certain food types and categories out of his advice altogether.

Head into any bookstore, or browse the endless supply of books online, and you’ll find thousands of books on fitness. From how to workout at home and build muscle every day to mastering the equipment at the gym along with nutritional planning, there’s certainly no shortage of books that suggest how readers of any fitness level can earn their dream body. Yet why are there so many different ideas and books on this single topic? Well, with so much variance in ways to be healthy and get fit, there’s a lot of advice to accompany them.

Everyone who writes a book about fitness is an expert of some sort, or claims to be one. However, that doesn’t mean that every fitness book, or all of these authors, agree with one another. Each person has a different idea as to what is good or bad, healthy or unhealthy when it comes to fitness and health. For example, some believe avoiding eggs and dairy is key, while others believe it’s carbs that cause problems. That’s where the endless supply of fitness books come from – the areas in which experts disagree, or conflict.

Those of us who are looking to get fit and improve our well being flock to fitness books for instructions, guidelines, and expertise. However, it’s important to determine exactly which expert – and which book – is the best plan for our individual bodies, lifestyles, and goals. While they all vary, they can all be correct. As Lifehacker writes, these many experts do understand the rules and guidelines of nutritional information, and often are educated in their fields. So, although their information may contradict others’ writings on the very same subject, there’s no reason to doubt any of the many different fitness books – as long as their authors are the experts they claim to be, of course.

When attempting to choose a fitness plan and book, make sure the information is reasonable and healthy. Don’t adopt a plan that requires you to give up healthy eating habits, or to forsake regular activity in an effort to get fit. If you’re ever unsure, you can compare the book’s advice to the governmental guidelines for healthy lifestyles.

Weight loss and dieting takes a lot of effort because what you are doing is changing your lifestyle and your food choices. With the existence of many types of diet, several books have been published. Why so?

Different diets do not work for everyone. Having said that, you have to do a lot of research in order for you to gauge which of these diets work best for you. This is where the diet books play an important role. With the books about different diets, you are introduced to what they are, their purpose and their methodology that will lead to one thing – weight loss and keeping it off. It will explain how the diet came to be and what lead them to develop it so you have a better understanding.

It serves as your guideline. Oftentimes we do want to start a diet plan but we are completely clueless about what to do or how to go about it. These diet books are the perfect solution. It is there to give you the much needed information on which food to consume more and which of these foods that you need to eliminate. You will also learn more about alternative foods that you can snack on in lieu of those unhealthy chips that you’re so used to eating.

It is an inspiration. There are diet books that contain actual testimonies of people who have tried the diet and have been successful about it. Sometimes all you need is encouragement and validation that it works. Knowing that these people have the same struggle as you do can be comforting. It’s good to know that you are not alone in this journey. To read about their success gives you that motivation and that drive not to give up because you know in the end, you will have the result that you want.

Having healthy glowing skin has its benefits. After all, it is our body’s protection against germs and bacteria that could cause infection. It also regulates our temperature when the environment becomes too hot or too cold. Therefore it is but right that we do what we can to keep it healthy. Here are great books that you can read in order to keep it at is optimum health.

Written by a board-certified dermatologist, this book is an easy read about keeping your skin good looking and healthy. It covers topics like essential foods to eat in order to improve your skin health and at the same time the importance of hydrating inside and outside. These topics can also help with the prevention of stretch marks which is great. Who wants stretch marks after all. With this book the reader will know how to choose the right skincare products, reduce signs of aging and also how to detect skin cancer and how to prevent it.

The book is a great read if you are dealing with skin-related problems like birthmarks, spider veins, acne scars and other conditions. Each of these conditions were explained in the book including the treatment. There are also stories shared by patients who went through the treatment. A good read for people who want to learn more about keeping your skin beautiful by doing more than just following a regular skin care regimen.

The Cellulite Solution: A Doctor’s Program for Losing Lumps, Bumps, Dimples and Stretch Marks by Dr. Howard Murad

The book was written by the founder of Murad Skincare, Inc. who specializes in dermatology. It covers the condition that most women dread the most – cellulite. What caused it and how to correct this condition is explained in this book. Aside from that, the book has a bonus program that aims to reduce stretch marks providing readers with a detailed nutrition plan, recommended supplements and advice on external skin care.